From NBC News: The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday plans to repeal the legal framework that underpins its power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
Known as the endangerment finding, the EPA’s 2009 decision says that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane are heating the Earth and that warming threatens public health and welfare. It therefore functions, under the Clean Air Act, as the lynchpin for rules that set emissions standards for cars and trucks and require fossil fuel companies to report their emissions, among others.
The move is expected to upend most U.S. policies aimed at reducing climate pollution — if the repeal can withstand court challenges from environmental groups, which had already been preparing to sue.
“President Trump will be joined by Administrator Lee Zeldin to formalize the rescission of the 2009 Obama-era endangerment finding,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a briefing on Tuesday. “This will be the largest deregulatory action in American history, and it will save the American people $1.3 trillion in crushing regulations.”
.@PressSec: “[The recission of the 2009 Obama-era Endangerment Finding] will be the largest deregulatory action in American history and it will save the American people $1.3 TRILLION in crushing regulation.” https://t.co/KfoIWIyMa6 pic.twitter.com/p1SXD2AqDX
— Lee Zeldin (@epaleezeldin) February 10, 2026
The EPA’s planned deregulation, which may include repealing the finding and removing greenhouse gas emissions standards for motor vehicles, could reduce the costs of cars, SUVs, and trucks.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin proposed repealing carbon dioxide standards for power plants and plans to reconsider other policies based on the endangerment finding, including methane regulations.
The 2009 EPA Endangerment Finding, a key component of the Left’s climate policy that has been used to justify expanding bureaucratic influence, was born from the agency’s aggressive reading of the Court’s ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA.
Tomorrow, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is… pic.twitter.com/49roTpd4po
— Carrie Severino (@JCNSeverino) February 11, 2026
Environmental groups say they’re feeling pressure to file more lawsuits against corporate polluters amid concerns the Trump administration is leaving a gap by not policing violators hard enough. https://t.co/vlVAxZni9W
— Bloomberg Law: Environment (@environment) February 11, 2026
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